On ignorance
This post was inspired by this post.
“The Greek word for ‘return’ is nostos. Algos means ’suffering.’ So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return. To express that fundamental notion most Europeans can utilize a word derived from the Greek (nostalgia, nostalgie) as well as other words with roots in their national languages: añoranza, say the Spaniards…In Spanish añoranza comes from the verb añorar (to feel nostalgia), which comes from the Catalan enyorar, itself derived from the Latin word ignorare (to be unaware of, not know, not experience; to lack or miss). In that etymological light nostalgia seems something like the pain of ignorance, of not knowing.”
Ignorance by Milan Kundera (2002)
In psychoanalysis, if someone is said to ignore then s/he is believed to be in denial, that is, not not-to-know, rather, to know and deny that it is, whatever that ‘is’ may be; to deny its existence.
Moreover, denial belongs amongst the most notorious defence mechanisms in psychology. But to defend from something, one must be attacked. I would say denial is the defence from ones’ auto-attack. Denial is the archenemy of the self.
Not to ignore, that is, not to not-know, but to know and know.
p.s. Patience dear fellow-blogger. And wishes for your “yearning to return.”
“The Greek word for ‘return’ is nostos. Algos means ’suffering.’ So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return. To express that fundamental notion most Europeans can utilize a word derived from the Greek (nostalgia, nostalgie) as well as other words with roots in their national languages: añoranza, say the Spaniards…In Spanish añoranza comes from the verb añorar (to feel nostalgia), which comes from the Catalan enyorar, itself derived from the Latin word ignorare (to be unaware of, not know, not experience; to lack or miss). In that etymological light nostalgia seems something like the pain of ignorance, of not knowing.”
Ignorance by Milan Kundera (2002)
In psychoanalysis, if someone is said to ignore then s/he is believed to be in denial, that is, not not-to-know, rather, to know and deny that it is, whatever that ‘is’ may be; to deny its existence.
Moreover, denial belongs amongst the most notorious defence mechanisms in psychology. But to defend from something, one must be attacked. I would say denial is the defence from ones’ auto-attack. Denial is the archenemy of the self.
Not to ignore, that is, not to not-know, but to know and know.
p.s. Patience dear fellow-blogger. And wishes for your “yearning to return.”
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